Billionaire Wealth Has Doubled So Far This Decade

David Dayen The American Prospect
The doubling of estimated revenues from the Warren wealth tax adds a dimension to the debate on how to redesign the tax code. The numbers show that the bulk of the money available for taxation is currently shielded.

Female Sperm Whales Aide Birthing Mother

One of the most detailed observations of a sperm whale birth ever recorded shows how the deep diving marine mammals reproduce and interact socially.

No Kings! No Kings!

Thoughts on Monarchy from Songwriters John Forster & Tom Chapin and their musical community.  

Four Union Strategies To Fight on A.I.

Keith Brower Brown Labor Notes
Photo of Nurses in red scrubs rallying .
A.I is a management power grab, disguised as an inevitable technical upgrade. To fight it, workers can use four strategies proven in the past: name the real problem; unionize it; ransom it; and block it.

2 Poems From the Iraq War

Lola Haskins
Poet Lola Haskins offers these pieces about the 2004 Iraq War from her book The Grace to Leave, first to remind us that in that war the body count for Americans reached 4,492, and second, that its shadow has never dissipated.

The Next Financial Shock To Come From Trump’s War With Iran

Logan McMillen The New Republic
America’s current credit rating masks a fatal contradiction, and a downgrade is the only honest assessment of an empire in decline. The expanding war in Iran and the subsequent crisis in the Strait of Hormuz have fractured global energy supply chain